Did sexism bring Donald Trump to power?
AThe Democrats are coming To come to terms with their crucial loss, some began pointing the finger at a simple, tempting — and comforting — explanation: it was sexism. America is simply not ready to elect a female president, several media outlets have suggested, as it becomes clear that voters have rejected a woman to hold the highest office for a second time. In the early hours of November 6, David Axelrod, a campaign strategist turned political commentator, said in CNN Anyone claiming that sexism played no role in Ms Harris’s defeat was simply “wrong”. “The country is still sexist and not ready for a woman president,” Patti Solis Doyle, who ran Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign, told Politico.